Comedy > 15 years and over Comedy > 2001

Not another teen movie well worth watching

Advantages: laugh out loud funny
Disadvantages: humor can be a little coarse

Not another teen movie does a good job of spoofing many films such as breakfast club, bring it on and road trip, mean girls. the humour is that of American Pie, with an opening scene of the nerdy girl messing around with a vibrator. Everyone who she knows walks into the room to wish her happy birthday. She can't turn it off and everyones looking round for the buzzing sound, which is really funny especially as the family pet pulls the quilt away and ...
...her grandma looks at it. there are all of the typical sterotypes of American High school, the nerds, the jocks the cheerleaders, the brainy girl who looks ugly but is really nice looking. there are guest appearances by Mr T. and the tutor from breakfast club, and they recreate the scene quite well. the good looking footballer falls for the ugly but beautiful girl. A very clever film which is funny. ...

hardingjenny 06.02.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Not Another Teen Movie (DVD)

Bridget Jones' Diary-Don't keep high expectations

Advantages: Light.Renee Zelweigers decent performance
Disadvantages: Story is weak.Not many funny scenes

...The film is about Bridget Jones who is a hopeless romantic and an alchoholic,who ends up spending lonely nights year after year.She is hopelessly in love with her charming boss(Hugh Grant) who doesn't give her much thought. The starting is funny,with her mom trying to set her up with a recently divorced Mr.Darcy(Colin Firth) Hugh Grant gradually starts to take notice of her and finally asks her for dinner.One thing leads to another and you know how ...
...emergency work at his office.When Bridget returns to town,she finds out it wasn't actually work which brought him back. Following a certain sequence of events,Bridget ends up with the divorced guy,but soon even that goes wrong.I won't divulge the details but it kind of gets predictable at the end.This is a kind of film where you actually need to see the film to understand the comedy in it;it is more situational and real than other commercial comedy ...

aadnan613 30.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Bridget Jones's Diary (DVD)

The next sstep

Advantages: Same great cast, memorable scenes, great film
Disadvantages: Concentrates on a few characters

...the long awaited sequel to American Pie and it took nearly 2 years to get it in the cinemas. Launched in 2001 this film was really hyped up and had a lot to live up to and it did not disappoint. Time has moved on and our four heroes, being Jim (played by Jason Biggs), Oz (played by Chris Klein), Kevin (played by Thomas Ian Nicholas) and Finch (played by Eddie Kay Thomas) have just completed their first year of college. The boys re-unite and decide ...
...part as he did in American Pie, but just like Oz he is not charismatic and, in my opinion, not that funny. I suppose this is the difficulty these actors have to face when there is such a star studded and talented cast. ****Finch**** Finch is finding it difficult to let go and has been saving himself for his true love. He has been practising the art of tantra and plans to use this very soon. Finch gets excited when he hears that there will be a ...

yackers1 12.11.2008 · Read full review
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Review of American Pie 2 (DVD)

Amelie

Advantages: all around amazing, entertaining, well thought out
Disadvantages: nothing

I think that this is probably the best movie I have ever seen. Not only is the story completely terrific, but the filming is great as well! I love the effect put on the filming throughout the whole movie. I love the concept of this story. It reminds me that happiness in life depends on how you live your life, how to look at it, and how you try to improve, not only your own life, but others' as well. Every character in this movie is well thought out ...
...only is this a completely fulfilling and touching movie, it also has quite a bit of humour in it. I have zero bad things to say about this movie. I love everything about it, and I'm sure anyone who watches it will too. While watching this movie, it will help if you are a good reader or if you speak French, as the film is in French and unless you speak it you'll have to read subtitles. If that's not a problem for you, then I'm sure you'll adore this ...

LaLaLaLolah 11.09.2009 · Read full review
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The Office

Advantages: Funny, nice love story, comedy
Disadvantages: None

The Office has to be one of the funniest sitcoms of recent times. Any one who has ever worked in an office environment can relate I think to the situations the actors find themselves in and probably have a similar story of their own as well. I think this is one of the reasons why it is so funny and became so successful. The Office I think was different because it approached the sitcom genre in an interesting way by having the format of a documentary. ...
...had a camera crew in the office that basically filmed their every day lives in the office and all the drama and relationships that come with that. Like I’ve said, even though the show was made in the form of a documentary the show was fictional and scripted. It was interesting though because the camera crew often did individual interviews with the staff members also and asked them about things that were happening in the office. I found the comedy ...

Spottydog11 28.10.2009 · Read full review
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